By FUMI YADA/ Staff Writer
December 25, 2021 at 07:30 JST
“It seems that when hermit crabs die, only their shells remain,” said Atsushi Sogabe, an associate professor at Hirosaki University who studied the damage caused by abandoned tires. (Provided by Sogabe)
Car tires abandoned on the seabed are creating inescapable traps for hermit crabs, leading to slow or even brutal deaths of the “cleaners of the ocean,” researchers at Hirosaki University in Aomori Prefecture said. [Read More]
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